{"product_id":"9780228022978-water-quality","title":"Water Quality","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lush and vivid poems, Cynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns of stewardship, or as the sea in which to sail and drift, or as a gene pool that simmers through a family’s veins, water is the main character here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI find my bearings by clouds of moon jellies \/ afloat beneath my anchored boat, \/ pulsing the sea’s bright night, \/ their milky way, unfurling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these lush and vivid poems water gloves a swimmer’s body, is “satin, yes, viscous. Albumen, vernix, newborn slick.” It “rinses gai lan – bright green in a silver bowl” in Hong Kong or hibernates in the Pacific Northwest “under a silky pelt \/ of rain. People-less. Days, months of this \/ hiss, softness breaking cliffs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns of stewardship, or as the sea in which to sail and drift, or as a gene pool simmering through a family’s veins, water is the main character here. It can be turbid, the amniotic colour of spittle, or, in a time of drought, “brilliant beads.” As “a stream flushed over granite,” water seems to want “so little it shares another’s colour,” yet here, it gets our full and necessary attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich with vibrant language and intensity, these poems sizzle in lyric form, monologues, elegy, and haibun. \u003cem\u003eWater Quality\u003c\/em\u003e calls on us to consider that our very survival is at stake unless we make a vow to this vital element to cherish it as we would a partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419558101366,"sku":"9780228022978","price":16.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33654379.jpg?v=1748555224","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228022978-water-quality","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}